 | Almanacs, English - 1826 - 488 pages
...me. I have been pulling down bouses ; but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." That be needed no more soldiers, and that, for himself, he must go and refresh himself, having been up aU night. So he left me, and I him, and walked home ; seeing people all almost distracted, and no manner... | |
 | Humphry William Woolrych - Judges - 1827 - 478 pages
...pulling down 1 Diary, Vol. ip 425. a That houses should be pulled down. houses, but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it.' That he needed no more...having been up all night. So he left me, and I him, &c.'" Something that came out on Rosewell's trial, which we shall mention by and by, seems to confirm... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - London (England) - 1829 - 456 pages
...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it:' that he 'needed no more soldiers,' and that • he must go and refresh himself, having been up all...left me, and I him, and walked home ; seeing people almost distracted, and no manner of means used to quench the fire. The houses, too, so very thick thereabouts,... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - London (England) - 1829 - 452 pages
...I atn spent, the people will not obey me. J have been pulling down houses ; but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it :' that he ' needed no more soldiers,' and that ' he must go and refresh himself, having been up all night.' So he left me, and I him, and walked home... | |
 | Thomas Allen - London (England) - 1839 - 512 pages
...I do? 1 am spent: people will not obey me. I have been pulling down houses, but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it.' That he needed no more soldiers, and that, for * St. Laurence Poullney, of which Thomas Elborough was curate. T Sir Thomas Bludwurth. himself, he... | |
 | Charles Knight - London (England) - 1841 - 478 pages
...do ? I am spent ; people will not obey me. I have been pulling down houses ; but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it ;' that he needed no more...left me, and I him, and walked home ; seeing people almost distracted, and no manner of means used to quench the fire. The houses too so very thick thereabouts,... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1848 - 466 pages
...I do ? I am spent: people will not obey me. I have been pulling down houses; but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." That he needed no more...all almost distracted, and no manner of means used to quench the fire. The houses, too, so very thick thereabouts, and full of matter for burning, as... | |
 | Humphry William Woolrych - 1852 - 334 pages
...I do? I am spent : people will not obey me. I have been pulling down houses, but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it.' That he needed no more...having been up all night. So he left me, and I him," &c.3 1 Diary, vol. ip 425. 2 That houses should be pulled down. 3 Vol. ip 446. Pepys seems afterwards... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1854 - 532 pages
...I do ? I am spent: people will not obey me. I have been pulling down houses; but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." That he needed no more...all almost distracted, and no manner of means used to quench the fire. The houses, too, so very thick thereabouts, and full of matter for burning, as... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...do ? I am spent ; people will not obey me. I have been pulling down houses, but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." That he needed no more...all almost distracted, and no manner of means used to quench the fire. The houses too so very thick thereabouts, and full of matter for burning, as pitch... | |
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That he needed no more soldiers ; and that, for himself, he must go and refresh himself, having been up all night. So he left me, and I him, and walked home ; seeing people all almost distracted, and no manner of means used to quench the fire. The houses,... 
